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Europe Minister David Lidington denied yesterday that Britain’s NHS is under major threat from the proposed free trade treaty between the EU and the US.
“We do not envisage that there would be any significant change in the current position,” the Tory told concerned Labour MP Ian Lavery in the Commons.
Unions and labour movement campaigners are warning that the proposed neoliberal trade deal will open the floodgates for a further surge of privatisation throughout the public sector.
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT